Improved well-boring and drilling machine



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

CHARLES w. ATKESoN, 0E ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.v

IMPROVED WELL-BORING AND DRILLING MACHINE.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent N0. 64,620, dated Mayr 14, 1867.

To all froh-0m 'it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES W. ATKESON, of St. Louis, in the county of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Well-Boring or Drilling Machines and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had tol the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification.

within the power of any person of but littleY if any eXp'erencein Well-boring to .work or operate.

In the accompanying plate of drawings my improvementsinwell-boringmachinesareillustrated, Figure l being an velevation of one side of the machine; Fig. 2, a plan or top view; and Figs. 3 and 4, detail views, to be herein after referred to.

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A, in the drawings, represents the walkingbeam of the machine, which, at a point midway between its two ends, is suspended by trunnion-pins B, one upon each side, to and upon suitable bearings at the upper ends of parallel upright frames or posts C. This walking-beam, at one end, D, is connected in any suitable manner to the driving or operating power used, and from its upper or opposite end E is suspended the drill, which, by the present invention, is secured in any proper manner to a chain, F, passing over and partially around a pulley, G, hung in such end of the walkingbeam, and thence along the length of the beam to the center of the same, where it passes partially around a pulley, H, and down through the hole I in the beam to and around a windlas's-shaft or drum, J, hung so as to turn in bearings of the side frames C. K, a gearwheel, secured to one end of windlass-drum J .and interlocking into a pinion-wheel, L, oonnected with an operating or turning wheel, M, outside of one of the uprights G.

By turning the operating-wheel M in the proper direction it is obvious that the chain to which the drill is attached can be either raised or lowered, according as may be necessary or desirable, and whether the walking-beam is on its upward or downward movement, Without interfering in the least degree with the same, the advantages of which are obvious to all eX- perienced in the boring or drilling of' artesian or other Wells, as it enables the -drill to be fed to its work with ease, and no troublewhatever to the operator. Y f

Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The attachment of the chain-drum J, gearing K L, and wheel M, to the walking-beam, substantially as herein described, and for the purpose speoiiied. f Y

CHARLES W.' ATKESON.

Witnesses J. L. BERNE, WM. H. ATKESON. 

